CRR writes:
I couldn't find this discussed specifically as a topic. So tell me what you think Creationism is and what are the core beliefs? You will also need to say what sort of Creationism you are talking about.
Young Earth, Old Earth, Progressive Creation?
Are Deism, Theistic Evolution, and Intelligent Design forms of Creationism and how do they differ from the others?
Creationism presupposes a Creator.
RAZD writes:
To me all objective empirical evidence is evidence of reality and thus evidence of the result of creation.(...)When I first came here I said I was a deist and not a creationist, whereupon I was corrected (by Mr. Jack), that as I believed that god/s created the universe that I was de facto a creationist.
As a Deist, do you believe that the concept of a creator need be a personal One? (The Creator, that is)
Deism Defined writes:
belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. The term is used chiefly of an intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that accepted the existence of a creator on the basis of reason but rejected belief in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind.
Wheras David Jay Jordan describes a Creator differently:
DJJ writes:
So Solomon seemed to try just about everything, and yet without success. So what then is the solution to Life, what does bring us happiness and fulfillment.? What are we all looking for anyway? Yet centuries later one poet was so brash as to say she had found the solution, that even the wisest man on Earth could not..
AH! SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE, at last I've found thee; Ah! I know at last the secret of it all; All the longing, striving, seeking, waiting, yearning, The burning hopes, the joys and idle tears that fall! For 'tis LOVE, and love alone, the world is seeking; And it's love, and love alone, that can reply; 'Tis the ANSWER, tis the end and all of living.~Rida Johnson Young
So within the context of Creationism, we have either a personal relational Creator or a hypothetical nonrelational One who is nonetheless part of reality. Perhaps the relational aspect is the essence of our conversations. For some, the action of creative thought is itself evidence of a Creator. Comments?
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